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Diluted Thoughts, check your manual for your router, if you don't have a manual go to the manufacturers website and see if they have a downloadable one.
woody, ok that is a little tough, I would suggest you try disabling the firewall and attempting to connect. This will tell you for sure if it is the firewall or something else.
woody, ok that is a little tough, I would suggest you try disabling the firewall and attempting to connect. This will tell you for sure if it is the firewall or something else.
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I'm having that sort of problem in my home network too, maybe somebody here can help...
Specs:
P4 1.7G
SMC ADSL Barricade Router - SMC7401BRA
Win2k SP4
The problem:
I have the computer connected to DSL Router via USB, then I have Internet Connection Sharing enabled. All 4 PCs in the network are connected via a switch. The computer that's connected to the Router has no problems, but the computers in the network that are sharing the internet connection are unable to open sites such as yahoo mail, friendster, and some other sites. I was wondering if it was the ICS, I have no idea on what to do. Any help would be very much appreciated...
Specs:
P4 1.7G
SMC ADSL Barricade Router - SMC7401BRA
Win2k SP4
The problem:
I have the computer connected to DSL Router via USB, then I have Internet Connection Sharing enabled. All 4 PCs in the network are connected via a switch. The computer that's connected to the Router has no problems, but the computers in the network that are sharing the internet connection are unable to open sites such as yahoo mail, friendster, and some other sites. I was wondering if it was the ICS, I have no idea on what to do. Any help would be very much appreciated...
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THIS POST IS DIRECTED MOSTLY AT LAN USERS BUT SHOULD ALSO BE OK WITH NORMAL DIAL-UP/DSL
We have recently had the same sort of problem at work,
aproximately 90% of the computers suddenly could not access the Hotmail website through internet explorer or were able to log onto the MSN Messenger service, error codes in MSN Messenger pointed to there not even being a connection to the internet, which was untrue, all remote, terminal services connections and website access to any other site that we could think of were still present..(the other 10% worked perfectly - the reason for this is the 10% of computers were used by employees who left at an earlier time than the other 90%)
now im not sayin that this will help everybody, but even if it justs helps the minority then this post has served its purpose.
i found the problem lay actually with our DNS server...
these were my steps of sorting the problem
i simply changed the dns server to a public dns server (4.2.2.1 - a new public dns server in america)
then;
Start | Run | type: CMD
when the command prompt is open type: ipconfig /flushdns
this will flush whatever dns information your computer has recorded so that the next time you try to access hotmail it will use the new dns server (4.2.2.1)to find hotmail .. it worked for me and hopefully will work for you.
We have recently had the same sort of problem at work,
aproximately 90% of the computers suddenly could not access the Hotmail website through internet explorer or were able to log onto the MSN Messenger service, error codes in MSN Messenger pointed to there not even being a connection to the internet, which was untrue, all remote, terminal services connections and website access to any other site that we could think of were still present..(the other 10% worked perfectly - the reason for this is the 10% of computers were used by employees who left at an earlier time than the other 90%)
now im not sayin that this will help everybody, but even if it justs helps the minority then this post has served its purpose.
i found the problem lay actually with our DNS server...
these were my steps of sorting the problem
i simply changed the dns server to a public dns server (4.2.2.1 - a new public dns server in america)
then;
Start | Run | type: CMD
when the command prompt is open type: ipconfig /flushdns
this will flush whatever dns information your computer has recorded so that the next time you try to access hotmail it will use the new dns server (4.2.2.1)to find hotmail .. it worked for me and hopefully will work for you.
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http://www.dslreports.com/front/DRTCP021.exe
Click on that link and a window would come up to ask you to SAVE or OPEN, click on OPEN and you would see another window and at the bottom right hand side you would see a space that says MTU..you have to put 1492, then on the left side of that where it says adapter settings make you have the correct adapter selected, then clink on save and then exit and reboot your PC and tried one more time to access your hotmail and yahoo account and let us know..
Click on that link and a window would come up to ask you to SAVE or OPEN, click on OPEN and you would see another window and at the bottom right hand side you would see a space that says MTU..you have to put 1492, then on the left side of that where it says adapter settings make you have the correct adapter selected, then clink on save and then exit and reboot your PC and tried one more time to access your hotmail and yahoo account and let us know..
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Oh wow! The Dr. TCP program worked! Thank you so much, I've been struggling with that problem for a really long time but I didn't know how to solve it. I guess it was the MTU settings but I don't know how to manually change them but the program did it for me. Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
Marty-UK - Its worked !! - flushdns is they key to the problem for me. Like I've said I've messed around with MTU size on the router to no avail. I added a brand new laptop from work to my howm netwrok yesterday and I could get to hotmail - as this had never used any previous dns entries cached through this netwrok it makes perfect sense (with hindsight !!).
I haven't tried the MAC OS X machine yet.
Thanks again
Woody
I haven't tried the MAC OS X machine yet.
Thanks again
Woody
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Originally Posted by Marty-uk
THIS POST IS DIRECTED MOSTLY AT LAN USERS BUT SHOULD ALSO BE OK WITH NORMAL DIAL-UP/DSL
We have recently had the same sort of problem at work,
aproximately 90% of the computers suddenly could not access the Hotmail website through internet explorer or were able to log onto the MSN Messenger service, error codes in MSN Messenger pointed to there not even being a connection to the internet, which was untrue, all remote, terminal services connections and website access to any other site that we could think of were still present..(the other 10% worked perfectly - the reason for this is the 10% of computers were used by employees who left at an earlier time than the other 90%)
now im not sayin that this will help everybody, but even if it justs helps the minority then this post has served its purpose.
i found the problem lay actually with our DNS server...
these were my steps of sorting the problem
i simply changed the dns server to a public dns server (4.2.2.1 - a new public dns server in america)
then;
Start | Run | type: CMD
when the command prompt is open type: ipconfig /flushdns
this will flush whatever dns information your computer has recorded so that the next time you try to access hotmail it will use the new dns server (4.2.2.1)to find hotmail .. it worked for me and hopefully will work for you.
Hi Dr. TCP worked for me also on my daughters laptop connected to our network,
saved me a lot of hassle thanks flatpak
saved me a lot of hassle thanks flatpak
Hi, I cannot access my e-mail accounts of Yahoo and Hotmail with DSL Service. My computer is connected directly to the modem.
I am using Windows XP Home. I have tried to open them using Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer, and Netscape, and they do not open them.
I have tried changing the DNS Server doing the Start>Run>cmd>ipconfig /flushdns ..... and it does not work.
Ihave also erased cookies, files, and history, and it does not work.
Please, I would appreciate a quick solution, thank you very much.
I am using Windows XP Home. I have tried to open them using Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer, and Netscape, and they do not open them.
I have tried changing the DNS Server doing the Start>Run>cmd>ipconfig /flushdns ..... and it does not work.
Ihave also erased cookies, files, and history, and it does not work.
Please, I would appreciate a quick solution, thank you very much.
I had the same problem, I could not access yahoo mail, could not search yahoo, also had problems with other websites. After running DR. TCP and changing dns to 4.2.2.1 everything worked , but only on windows pc. I have linux box as well,and changing dns didnt helped.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem on linux?
Also, why this problem affects only some websites, while other webs work just fine?
Thanks
Does anyone know how to fix this problem on linux?
Also, why this problem affects only some websites, while other webs work just fine?
Thanks
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